As a Black theologian and political activist, deeply committed to the cause of freedom, reconciliation and justice in South Africa, Allan Boesak has embraced the philosophy of Black consciousness as a legitimate moral-political ...

Mothoagae, I. D.(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

The parading of the nude body of Sarah Baartman by the British colonisers led England and France to racially categorise her as a subhuman. Her Black body was viewed as something that can be violated, exploited, destructed, ...

Baloyi, M. E.(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

Marriage is highly regarded in Africa. Many taboos and rituals were put in place to ensure that marriage endures for as long as the couple lives. Any attack on marriage was rendered as a great enemy that deserved to be ...

Dolamo, R. T. H.(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

Black theology was conceived in South Africa in the mid-1960s and flourished from the 1970s, when White supremacy perpetuated by the apartheid state was at its zenith. The struggle against apartheid was aimed mainly at ...

In Africa, the whole are religious and the dead are believed to be actively involved in the daily affairs of the people. Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral ...

What appears to be African Biblical Hermeneutics often refers to the geographical location of the authors rather than the content. There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord ...

Tiroyabone, Obusitswe(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

For centuries, the Philemon narrative has been read as the story of a slave that ran away from his master and must now be reconciled to him, and continue their master-slave relationship. Reading the narrative through a ...

This article will show that the Christocratical understanding
of church authority means that each of the official governing
bodies of the church can make its own decisions based
on the norm of the Word of God. This ...

Laubscher, M.(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

The work of Karl Barth has been quite influential in South
Africa, but what about the value of his sermons and their
influence on Barth’s reading and mainline preaching in
South Africa nowadays? After a short introduction, ...

Potgieter, P. C.(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)

A fairly general perception of John Calvin is that of a gloomy
and even cheerless person. In many publications on his life
and on his outlook on life, in particular, there is frequently
nothing or hardly anything to be ...